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Designer and Forms 11g

More and more customers want to upgrade to Forms 11g, but then questions come like:
“There’s no Designer 11g, do we have to say goodbye to Designer?”
“Can we generate 11g Forms from Designer?”
“When we want to keep using Designer, do we have to stay on Forms 10g?”

“As stated in earlier versions of this document, since Oracle Designer 10g there have been no
major new features although the product continues to be supported and development effort is
focused on stability and bug fixes. Oracle Designer is not released as a component of Oracle
Fusion Middleware 11g but will remain as a component in the Oracle Developer Suite 10g.
Future releases of Oracle Designer and support timelines will be within the Oracle Developer
Suite 10g release.”

There’s no new development, but Designer is still supported.
That’s some good news, we don’t have to throw away Designer right now ;-)

And of course there’s the Designer page on OTN, where the latest version can be downloaded.
The latest patch version is 10.1.2.6, released in May.
In the Release notes are two features that are very intresting concerning Forms 11g

So, it’s possible to continue working with Designer 10g and start using Forms 11g.
Implementing or capturing new Forms 11g features(external events, new triggers like when-custom-javascript-event) will be a problem in Designer 11g.

Designer is a good tool to keep everthing centralised from ERD to Form and keep everything well documented. I would not throw that away right now.